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41 items

• A Love Song for Ricki Wilde

  a Novel

  Williams, Tia, 1975-

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  Outstanding Literary Work - Fiction nominee

• Grown Women

  a Novel

  Johnson, Sarai,

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  Outstanding Literary Work - Fiction nominee, Outstanding LIterary Work - Debut Author winner

• Neighbors and Other Stories

  Oliver, Diane, 1943-1966,

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  Outstanding Literary Work - Fiction nominee

• One of Us Knows

  Cole, Alyssa,

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  Outstanding Literary Work - Fiction winner

• What You Leave Behind

  Morris, Wanda M. (Wanda Michelle), 1959-

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  Outstanding Literary Work - Fiction nominee

• A Passionate Mind in Relentless Pursuit

  the Vision of Mary McLeod Bethune

  Rooks, Noliwe, 1963-

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  Outstanding Literary Work - Nonfiction nominee

• Love & Whiskey

  the Remarkable True Story of Jack Daniel, His Master Distiller Nearest Green, and the Improbable Rise of Uncle Nearest

  Weaver, Fawn, 1976-

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  Outstanding Literary Work - Nonfiction winner

• Picturing Black History

  Photographs and Stories That Changed the World

  Edmeier, Daniela,

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  Outstanding Literary Work - Nonfiction nominee

• The 1619 Project

  a Visual Experience

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  Outstanding Literary Work - Nonfiction nominee

• The Jazzmen

  How Duke Ellington, Louis Armstrong, and Count Basie Transformed America

  Tye, Larry,

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  Outstanding Literary Work - Nonfiction nominee

• A Kind of Madness

  Stories

  Okonkwo, Uche, 1988-

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  Outstanding Literary Work - Debut Author nominee

• AfroCentric Style

  a Celebration of Blackness & Identity in Pop Culture

  Neal, Shirley (Ghostwriter),

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  Outstanding Literary Work - Debut Author nominee

• Masquerade

  Sangoyomi, O. O.,

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  Outstanding Literary Work - Debut Author nominee

• Swift River

  Chambers, Essie,

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  Outstanding Literary Work - Debut Author nominee

• Bits and Pieces

  My Mother, My Brother, and Me

  Goldberg, Whoopi, 1955-

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  Outstanding Literary Work – Biography/Autobiography nominee

• By the Time You Read This

  the Space Between Cheslie's Smile and Mental Illness : Her Story in Her Own Words

  Kryst, Cheslie,

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  Outstanding Literary Work – Biography/Autobiography nominee

• Do It Anyway

  Don't Give Up Before It Gets Good

  Cobbs-Leonard, Tasha, 1981-

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  Outstanding Literary Work – Biography/Autobiography nominee

• Lovely One

  a Memoir

  Jackson, Ketanji Brown, 1970-

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  Outstanding Literary Work – Biography/Autobiography nominee

• Medgar & Myrlie

  Medgar Evers and the Love Story That Awakened America

  Reid, Joy-Ann, 1968-

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  Outstanding Literary Work – Biography/Autobiography winner

• I Did a New Thing

  30 Days to Living Free

  Brown, Tabitha,

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  Outstanding Literary Work – Instructional nominee